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3 hours ago, RobertWS said:

 

By gradually reducing the volume until it is zero.

And if you turn on "Write Automation" while doing that Cakewalk will remember it and play it back like that if you have "Read Automation" on...

Ok Russ, So I looked at your screen shots again a little closer... It appears that you have your Driver Mode set to WASAPI Shared... You need to set it to ASIO in Preferences... That is why you can't set the ASIO buffer...

Preferences -> Audio - Playback and Recording

Under Preferences -> Audio - Driver Settings you should see "ASIO Panel" and not "Wave Profiler"...

And I agree with Byron, you need to uninstall the generic Asio Drivers...

41 minutes ago, Gui Garibotti said:

 

For example, in FL Studio I can change Pattern2 notes without running the risk of accidentally changing Pattern1 notes, they are independent.

 

In general the clip or note you are editing will be highlighted... If no other notes or clips are "highlighted" you are editing only those notes\clips... You always have the "undo" command when editing notes... And save your work often and there is also the auto save feature you can turn on...

There is a feature called "Linked Clips" that will apply the edits to all Clips that are linked... Linked clips are highlighted with a boarder around them... I always "color code" all my linked clips...

Cakewalk has a lot to offer if you want to take the time to learn how to use it... I've used FL Studio in the past, and have even used it as a plugin inside of Cakewalk... It has some nice features but doesn't come close to Cakewalk, IMHO...

35 minutes ago, Gui Garibotti said:

How to?

You can start with...

Working with MIDI clips

MIDI Groove Clips

Matrix view

Arranger tracks

11 minutes ago, Gui Garibotti said:

Is it possible to create midi patterns similar to FL Studio?

 

Yes...

"Cakewalk" has been fully 64 bit compatible since Sonar 5 in 2005... So if your "older" program is Sonar 5 or after you can simple install the 64 bit version on your machine... Anything older than Sonar 5 you could probably install the 32 bit version and use the 32 bit VST's with bitbridge as Promidi stated... You may also be able to use the 32 bit DX effects but it involves using a DX to VST wrapper... Not Recommended...

This is a spread sheet that someone compiled that tells you what plugins came with what version of Sonar...

Sonar Plugins 3 to X3

You maybe be able to cross reference and look for the plugins you are looking for and if they are available in another version of Cakewalk that you may have...

The "Buffer" setting is higher in the one setup that you uploaded screen shots for... And the Asio driver is reporting a Latency of 10ms... So you're getting what you ask for... Try reducing the buffer size...

To follow up with Byron... What are your Driver Settings, Sample Rate, Buffer Size? Midi Driver playback buffer settings?

And what if you want different Automation on the Linked Clips? I use linked clips on different tracks and use different automation envelopes on them...

Are you triggering the SI Electric Piano with your mouse on the little VST keyboard? If so you will not Record Midi to the midi track... There will be no Midi Events at the input to the Midi Track, only Midi Events input to the VST... So there will be nothing for Cakewalk to Record... Audio will output from the VST to the Audio Track that will record...

Very possible that you can either disable the Pitch Wheel or set it to "Zero" on your controller... If you actually use the Pitch Wheel then that would be a problem... You can also set Cakewalk to not respond to Pitch Wheel control changes in Preferences -> MIDI -> Playback and Record... It will not respond to or record pitch control changes...

You can also install Midi View to see just how much info your controller is sending to Cakewalk... Midi View doesn't show every thing but does show Pitch Wheel controller...

You may also be able in install something like MIDI Patchbay to filter out the control changes into Cakewalk if you can't fix the Pitch Wheel...

Ah 1, Ah 2, Aah 3...

Pretty sure you can do this on a per project basis under Preferences -> Project -> Metronome...

Project - Metronome

If you would like the same setting for every new Project create a Project Template...

2 hours ago, Kawika said:

In attempt to use Automap4, only Sonar Plat was a recognized as a DAW choice, not Cakewalk-band lab. Anybody know why?

 

That question would be better directed to Novation Support...

That's great, glad it's working out for you... Not sure of your exact setup but one thing to keep in mind is that with Wasapi Shared you will experience higher Latency than what you can achieve with Asio drivers...

Very probable that the "crackle" sounds that you were experiencing were from buffer overflows with your Asio driver... A buffer size to small will cause this... With Asio, in general, the smaller the buffer the less the Latency...

If Wasapi Shared is working out for you and the latency is not a problem, great... You can always try your Asio driver and adjust the buffer size and see if you can get better latency results...

When I am recording with live inputs I set my Asio for very low latency... If I'm mixing a project I will set my buffer sizes to the maximum, high latency...

Check the midi event list for your tracks for Pitch Wheel controller changes... If you are using a Midi Keyboard Controller perhaps the Pitch Wheel on it is sending a control change... Possibly the Pitch Wheel controller is stuck?

On 12/27/2022 at 3:11 PM, moonbooter said:

My wish: Please let Cakewalk always activate ALL available MIDI-ports automatically.

Kevin made a very good point here...

1 hour ago, Kevin Perry said:

What happens if you remove a MIDI device deliberately?

I use MidiQuest VST with my keyboards and I have to disable the midi input to route them to MidiQuest... (Forbidden Windows driver sharing...) Then use a third party midi loop back driver to interface with Cakewalk... So if Cakewalk would always enable all midi devices that would be a nightmare...

But I 100% agree that Cakewalk should remember disconnected devices and not re-assign the next available driver when a device is not present... This can also be a real pain when I open a project without one of my keyboards on...

8 hours ago, willem windig said:

When I sing and play the keyboard the microphone only records my voice and somehow corrects for the keyboard sound.

Are you using a Magic Microphone?

You might want to read and try Freeze tracks and synths from the Manuel...

Fairly sure you are referring to the Browser which by default is docked on the right side, you can dock it else where if you chose... Are your plugins showing up in the FX Rack? If so try to arrange them by a different "Sort by"... The browser view should also change to the new "Sort by"... Perhaps this will bring them back... Did you try reading the Manuel?

5 hours ago, msmcleod said:

You can synchronise wordclock over SPDIF - this is completely different from synchronising playback and tempo.
 

I concur with Mark... Word Clock would only be synchronizing you audio devices and not your project Transport... You would still need to use MIDI Sync or MTC\SMPTE to sync your project Transport...

SMPTE was developed for use with Motion Pictures and is Tempo independent... They would record (Strip) the Time Code into the film to synchronize the audio and audio  equipment with the film... Regardless of who was scoring the sound track for the film they would all be using the same time code to synchronize the audio to the film...

If you change the tempo in your project or even have tempo changes during your song in the project the SMPTE\MTC clock stays the same, it does not follow your tempo... If you are using SMPTE to sync you are also sending other info with it, such as frame position... The SMPTE clock is dependent on the frame rate you chose...

MIDI Sync, which you can use with your Motu Ultralite will be highly more accurate... It sends out the MIDI clock rate of your project... If you double the Tempo you double the clock rate and accuracy of your projects... If you have tempo changes your clock will follow the tempo change...

2 hours ago, Byron Dickens said:

Get rid of that generic driver completely.

Totally Agree... Glad you got it figured out...

You can try MIDIView... It does not display all midi events/messages but maybe what you're looking for...

MidiView

4 hours ago, msmcleod said:

@Jordi - just re-read your original post.

So you press Play on the master Cakewalk instance, and everything works fine...

You press Play on the slave Cakewalk instance, and it says it's waiting for SMTPE...

This sounds like correct behaviour to me.  You can only press play on the master - that's the whole point of it being the master.  Slaves can't initiate playback.

If you are using SMTPE as the clock source and every thing is set up right you only need to hit start on the "Master"... The slave, if it is Cakewalk will start as soon as it receives the time code, but it depends on the settings in the Preference --> Audio --> Sync and Caching page... .. With SMTPE you can have some offset in your "sync" between master and slave...

I have found syncing with Midi Sync works better and easier... With Midi Sync you need to hit play first on the slave to "arm" it or it will not follow/start... With MIDI Sync and transmitting Song Position Pointer the two projects will stay in time... With SMTPE, from my experience, if you start and stop playback they will drift apart every time you stop...

I have "Synced" CbB and Sonar Platinum on the same pc using loopMIDI as the Midi interface...

Using SMPTE you also need to check these...

Preferences --> Project --> MIDI --> Send MIDI Time Code --> MTC Output Ports --> Your MIDI device

Kind of overlooked that in the other post...

On your Master PC in Cakewalk Preferences make sure you have the following checked...

Preferences --> Project --> MIDI --> Send MIDI Sync --> Transmit MIDI Start/Stop/Continue/Clock

Preferences --> Project --> MIDI --> Send MIDI Sync --> MIDI Sync Output Ports --> Your MIDI device hooked between PC's

Cakewalk as the master

On 12/14/2022 at 7:12 AM, edward sourial said:

how to record by infinite samples

He must be using one of those Double-Density Disk...